Sooner or later, the dead catch up. . . .
Judas Coyne was a collector. The bizarre, the unusual, the grotesque: A cookbook for cannibals. A used hangmanβs noose. A snuff film. Usually the objects were sent by the black-clad fans who made his metal band a legend and made him rich.
But this time, when his personal assistant told him there was a ghost for sale on the Internet, Jude didnβt think twice. But he should have. Of all the ghosts around himβthe abusive father, the battered, resentful child Jude once was, the bandmates he betrayed, Anna, the suicidal girl he loved and dumpedβthis new one means to haunt him all the way to hell.
His new acquisitionβdelivered to his doorstep in a black heart-shaped boxβis Annaβs vengeful stepdaddy. Martin Craddock swears heβs going to settle up with Jude for ruining his daughterβs life. Craddock is everywhere: on the other side of the bedroom door; in Judeβs restored vintage Mustang; outside his window, on his television screen. In his hand , a gleaming razorblade swinging from a chain.
And now the jaded rock star whoβs seen it all, done it all, has never been so afraid. . . .
Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Fireman, NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box; Strange Weather, a collection of novellas; and the acclaimed story collections Full Throttle and 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the Eisner Awardβwinning writer of a seven-volume comic book series, Locke & Key. Much of his work has been adapted for film and TV, including NOS4A2 (AMC), Locke & Key (Netflix), In the Tall Grass (Netflix), and The Black Phone (Blumhouse).